Tag: History
Sublime Shabbir writes history to claim CAS Open Golf title
KARACHI: Pakistan's leading golfer Shabbir Iqbal proved unchallenged victor in the 38th CAS Open Golf Championship when he wrote history by carding 16 under 272...
Archeologists discover Neolithic remains in Nile Delta
CAIRO: Archaeologists in Egypt say they have found one of the oldest-known villages in the Nile Delta dating back to the Neolithic era.
A joint...
Cricket for a cause: A history
The cricket world is coming together at Lord’s on Thursday 31 May to do its bit for communities in the Caribbean affected by deadly hurricanes last...
A journey of exploring and experiencing Lahore
The premise of Lahore’s history lies in its diversification; whenever you walk those streets within the old city, you are left in awe of...
Annual session of Commission on Status of Women held in New...
NEW YORK: The annual two-week session of the Commission on the Status of Women is underway at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York.
Representatives...
2,000-year-old sculpture unearthed in Saudi desert
RIYADH: An ancient sculpted bedrock, depicting camelids (even-toed ungulate mammals) and equids (a mammal of the horse family), has been found in the northern...
‘Raising new questions can portray true picture of our history’
LAHORE: Speakers and art historians on Friday said that one should continue to raise questions regarding history as it is the only way to open...
100 years of women’s suffrage: how struggle changed British history
LONDON: British women won the right to vote 100 years ago after an intense struggle marked by a violent fringe campaign that shocked the...
Ancient statues looted in Lebanese war return decades later
BEIRUT: A marble bull’s head made 2,400 years ago for a Phoenician temple and looted during Lebanon’s civil war arrived in Beirut on Friday...
Ruins of ancient 3,000-year-old fortress discovered in a Turkish lake by...
A team of researchers discovered a lost 3,000-year-old castle in Turkey’s Lake Van. According to archaeologists from the Van Yüzüncü Yil University, the ruins...
China’s Xi teaches Trump bit of Chinese history
BEIJING: As President Xi Jinping led his US counterpart Donald Trump around Beijing's Forbidden City on Wednesday, he made time to teach the American...
Govt to preserve Punjab archives through digitalisation
LAHORE: Punjab Additional Chief Secretary Shamail Ahmad Khawaja has directed to start the digitalisation project for comprehensive preservation of governmental archives, spread over 400 years...
Koh-e-Noor inspires new and bloody history
Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world’s most famous diamond the Koh-e-Noor surpasses them all, with a...
Zarb-e-Azb to always shine on pages of our history: PM
Describing the two years of Zarb-e-Azb as an “everlasting tale of human determination, courage, fortitude, bravery and sacrifice”, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday...
PSX-100 index makes history, tops 37,000 points
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) rallied over 500 points to reach an intra-day high of 37360.88 points on Friday, hours before the Pakistan Muslim...
History won’t forgive Imran for trampling values to get power: Pervaiz
Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Sunday said history would never forgive Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan...
Afghanistan create history, break into top-10 of ICC ODI rankings
Afghanistan, who made an impressive debut in the World Cup earlier this year, continued their dream run in 2015 when they crushed Zimbabwe by...
